Washbasin attachment.



L. J. MONAHAN.

WASHBASIN ATTACHMENT.

' APPLICATION FILED NOV. so, 1908.

Patented Mar. 9, 1909.

INvENToR wnmesszsz LOUIS J. MONAHAN, Ol OSIIKOblI, WISCONSIN.

WASHBASIN ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 9, 1909.

Application filed November 30, 1908. Serial No. 465,206.

To all whom it may MW.-

Be 11 known that 1, Louis J. Moxiun'x a (lilZtll of the United States, residing at' a shows a sectional view Usliliosll. in the count of \Vinnebago and State of \Yisconsin, have invented certain new and useful improvements in ashbasin Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to an improved wash bowl or basin having devices attached thereto or forming part thereof for the purpose of enabling the user to withhold the sleeves from entering the bowl with the hands.

The object of the invention is to enable the user to successfully protect the sleeves or cuffs from becoming wet or soiled while washing the hands and ma simple and satisfactory manner.

In the drawings Figure 1 shows a wash bowl of conventional form, with one form of device attached; Fig. 2 shows a bowl with'a different or modified form of attachment forming part of the bowl; Fig. 3 is a detail of one of the attachments of Fig. 1 and Fig. 4 of the bowl with the handof a person in the act of using the device.

The lug 1 can be made of any suitableform to permit of it being attached to the front of a bowl but is here shown to be placed up under the flange of the front edge and to be held thereto by means of the set screw 2. A suitably formed spring wire 3 is bent to fit loosely in a hole4 in the lug 1 so it can turn therein and thereby placed in an upward or downward position; the wire 3 as shown is coiled at 5 to give it additional flexibility and has a bifurcated form at the top as shown at 6. This form-of device is shown attached to the bowl in Fig. 1 each side of the center, one upward and one in a downward position, it will be seen that it can be thrown upward or downward by swinging on'the pivoted part 4. In Fig. 2 the two forked parts are shown as forming part of the bowl, which form may be desired in preference to the flexible form first described, and many other forms may suggest themselves but these two are deemed sufiicient to disclose the idea.

The use of the device is best shown in Fig.

4 in which 7 is the wash bowl, 8 the hand of a person using same and 9 the coat sleeve covering the arm of the user while the numerals .1, b 5 and 6 represent the sleeve holding device similar to that shown in Fig. 3 in the act of holding the sleeve back from the hand. It will be seen that the sleeves or cuffs are held back in an elfcctive manner while the hands are being washed and the devices, when not used, can be turned down out of the way. In the form shown in Fig. 2 the forks need not extend upward any great ex tent. and when used the hands can be placed a short distance ahead of them so the wrists will rest in the forks, then push the hands forward which will efiectively hold the sleeves back out of the way.

Having fully described the'invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a sleeve protector the combination with a wash bowl or basin, of a bifurcated device or devices arranged to extend upwardly adj acent to the front part of the wash bowl or basin.

2. In a wash bowl the combination with devices of a forked like construction attached thereto, of means for adjusting the said devices so they will engage the wrists or arms of the user and withhold the arm covering from entering the said bowl.

3 A wash bowl having devices arranged to retain or hold the users sleeves or clothing about the arms from entering the bowl with the hands.

4. A wash bowl having suitably formed devices or attachments on the front part thereof for the purpose of preventing the users sleeves or armcovering from entering the bowl withthe hands.

5. A sleeve holding device adapted to be attached to a wash bowl and being of suitable form to withhold the sleeves back while the hands are being washed.

6. A sleeveholding device or devices arranged to extend ufpwardly adjacent to a wash'bowl or basin or the purpose of withholding the sleeves or arm covering of the user from entering the bowl or basin with the hands.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS J. MONAHAN.

Witnesses:

' W. W. WATERHOUSE,

MARY MONAHAN. 

